Sad to see him go. The media liked to go on about his products that were flops - instead of really appreciating the creativity he had. Visionaries, inventors always look ahead and never focus on the bits that aren't working.
Today SpaceX can fail and blow up rockets, people think "they are improving, getting better" but Sinclair didn't seem to command that respect in the brutal consumer products industry. Yes his stuff didn't fully work and was cheap, but it disrupted things in a good way. Imagine a $99 personal computer.
You build something which ends up being an overall flop, but there were 10 wins in the build - nobody seems to think that is gold from which you move ahead. It seemed to climax with the C5's issues and here we are today with rogue electric trikes, scooters, e-bikes etc. 36 years later.
The movie about him made him out to be a nutbar, playing Ozzy Osborne Crazy Train song in the background etc. I thought it missed what he was about.
In life he'd married a young exotic dancer, pretty hot so he had his fun lol..
2015 BBC Interview, comparing his vision of computers in the 80's to today (30 years later):
"I'm very impressed by the processing power. But I'm not at all impressed by what is done with it. It's really rather dull when you consider, you know, what we achieved with a few K RAM, in those days. It's a bit sad how very much... it has not progressed from there. I fully expected back then that we would have computerized doctors and teachers".